Which makes its appointment to lead a special United Nations Human Rights Council panel a bit… odd.
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Western countries have ditched plans for a United Nations-led inquiry into alleged war crimes by Saudi Arabia and others in Yemen, instead backing an investigation by the Saudi-allied Yemen government.
A fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and student at Yale Law School, Aziz recently wrote the piece “Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, and Their Gift to Yale”. “What explains it? It was Saudi Arabia’s total opposition”, to the resolution.
Instead, the new resolution supports a decree, issued by the exiled Yemeni government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, appointing a national commission of inquiry.
Wearing the mask of King Salman of Saudi Arabia, a protester slammed the regime’s massacre of people in Yemen.
A few wonder why Saudi Arabia has a seat on the Human Rights Council at all.
According to Tasnim dispatches, during the gathering on Wednesday, the protesters voiced their outrage over the Saudi government’s human right violations, ranging from its military onslaught on the defenseless people of Yemen to the torture of prisoners and the flogging of female drivers and social activists in the oil-rich kingdom. Moreover, it also gives the United Nations human rights commissioner a mandate to monitor and report on developments in Yemen, the diplomat said. The next day they attacked a wedding party in the southwest, killing another 131 civilians.
Mr. Dam of Human Rights Watch was disappointed. The coalition said the boat was registered to an Iranian as a fishing vessel.
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And then there’s this: Saudi Arabia may have colluded with the United Kingdom to get on the council.
